Just More Work

Gardening and farming continues at a breakneck pace. The weather has been superb. I think I'll try to plant beans in the garden this weekend. I moved the rhubarb from next to the shed and put it in a bed by itself. It seems to be taking well. Yesterday, I planted another bed of asparagus with both green and purple varieties. It takes 3 years to get a bed in production so Stacey will continue to buy store bought stuff. I suspect it would require at least an acre of asparagus to keep Stacey on pasture for the summer. Planting an acre is beyond my abilities. The 2 rows nearly killed me. I couldn't work the ground with a tiller as it is very heavy soil and a bit wet. I had to shovel and break the ground by hand. To plant asparagus, you need to shovel at least 3 inches of soil off the top and shovel it back on over the crowns. This means that first you must remove a full shovel depth so that you can bury the grass at the bottom of the row and have shovel capable soil to work with. I suspect that the simplest cure for the obesity epidemic the media talks about would be to make everyone raise all of their own food with hand tools. Shortly thereafter, we could begin work on the starvation epidemic.
Stacey brought home some seed potatoes . I haven't done well with potatoes so far but I'm trying something new. I can grow plenty of meat and veggies but I haven't done well with carbohydrates so far. I'd rather raise rice but I haven't found a dry land variety yet. I've read that they exist but I can't find a supply. Potatoes are my best bet if I can get the method down.
Stacey had her first colonoscopy yesterday. For those of you who haven't had one yet, it's no big deal. The doc removed a polyp but that's just procedure. The docs will check it but no one was impressed with it at the time. The hard part for Stacey was living off jello and broth for a day while the laxatives had their way with her. She made up for that at the Star Diner afterward with the Eggs Benedict breakfast there.
The lambs have started being born. So far, so good. I've gotten some of the sheep sheared which puts me way ahead of last year. I'll try and dedicate the weekend to it again.
We haven't looked at the bees lately. I suspect that we've lost hives over the winter but I don't know how many yet.
That's all for now.